The 3D revolution is upon us. It seems impossible to buy the latest LCD and Plasma displays these days free of such technology, so it was only a matter of time before a laptop computer featured a 3D display.

One of the first is from Dell, in the form of the Dell XPS 15 3D and XPS 17 3D, which have 15-inch and 17-inch displays respectively. Here we take a review of the 15-inch model.

For a high-end model, the casing Dell XPS 13 is mostly plastic and very average looking, especially compared to Apple's MacBook Pro and iPad products. Also, the keyboard is average at best, with not the most tactile feeling keys, whilst the arrow and page up/down keys are quite tightly grouped together. Hopefully the money has been spent on the components inside the notebook.

The XPS 15 3D comes with of one of the new-generation Sandy Bridge Intel Core i7-2820QM quad-core mobile processors running as standard at 2.30GHz or at 3.4GHz with the Turbo Boost mode enabled.

Graphics power comes courtesy of Nvidia with a GT 555M mobile GPU driving the 1080p capable display. The 15" LED backlit LCD screen runs at the all-important 120Hz refresh rate which is crucial for making it stereoscopic 3D capable in conjunction with the integrated IR transmitter. Disappointingly there are no free Dell XPS 3D glasses included with the retail package, although aftermarket alternatives such as the Nvidia 3DVision glasses will work very well.